Paradox Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old paradox quotes, paradox sayings, and paradox proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Plato

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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Eric Hoffer

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Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

Simon Sinek

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.

Oscar Wilde

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The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work

Bill Jensen

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To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?

Tom Robbins

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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Galileo Galilei

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Lao Tzu

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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

John Stuart Mill

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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions

Charles Caleb Colton

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If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Erich Fromm

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A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

Criss Jami

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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

George Eliot

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When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox

Mason Cooley

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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears

Adyashanti

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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Rabindranath Tagore

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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

George Bernard Shaw

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Paradox with him was only truth standing on its head to attract attention

Earl Warren

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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Niels Bohr

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Shana Alexander

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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

Fiona Apple

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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

William Hazlitt

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I'm not offended until you think I'm offended.

Criss Jami

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The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.

C. JoyBell C.

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Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

Gilles Deleuze

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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.